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Zayo opens new low-latency Chicago to Seattle route

Posted by on May 15, 2012 at 8:58 am
Dan Caruso, Zayo

Zayo has added a new route between Seattle and Chicago, giving its financial, content and wholesale customers a new option for low latency services.
Already providing a number of network services between Seattle and Chicago, the new service, which will…

Lightower expands network, colocation presence in Providence, R.I.

Posted by on May 15, 2012 at 7:59 am

Lightower is giving its carrier and business customers in Providence, R.I., more options with the addition of 21 miles of new fiber routes that will serve the Pawtucket and Seekonk communities.
Complementing the new fiber build is an expansio…

ACSI Rankings: FiOS TV Remains Top Ranked TV Service – AT&T Sees Slight Wireless Improvement

Posted by on May 15, 2012 at 7:47 am

The latest version of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index is now out, the Index ranking everything from the airline industry to the IRS on a one-hundred point scale. For our interests, the latest May ACSI rankings offers insight on customer satisf…

CableLabs Preps DOCSIS’s Next Step – DOCSIS 3.1 or 3.x Focuses Heavily on Upstream

Posted by on May 15, 2012 at 5:33 am

Many cable operators haven’t deployed DOCSIS 3.0 yet (especially on the upstream side), but that obviously hasn’t stopped the development of the next step in cable broadband technology. CableLabs says they’re cooking up a new specification that will su…

PSTN-to-IP migration must be done with care, say Verizon, AT&T

Posted by on May 15, 2012 at 4:03 am
Tony Melone, Verizon

AT&T (NYSE: T) and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) are clearly two service providers making a migration away from the PSTN to all IP, but the move has to carefully take into account a number of key technical, business and operational issues.

MTS Allstream earnings reach $53M on IPTV, business services increase

Posted by on May 14, 2012 at 8:49 am

MTS Allstream (Toronto: MBT.TO) reported that earnings rose to CAD 53.1 million (USD 52.9 million), up from CAD 43.1 million (USD 43.0 million), in the same period a year ago with a 19 percent jump in IPTV earnings and a 4 percent increase in Conver…

BT’s cost-cutting, broadband service drive 3% earnings rise in fiscal Q4

Posted by on May 14, 2012 at 8:16 am

BT’s (NYSE: BT) focus on reducing costs and growing its broadband base put the UK incumbent provider on steady ground in its fiscal fourth quarter of 2011.
For Q4, the service provider reported that earnings–before interest, tax, depreciation and amor…

Sidera Networks announces Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network expansion

Posted by on May 14, 2012 at 7:37 am

Fiber-optic network services provider Sidera Networks says it can now offer low-latency connections via its Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency Network from the New York Metro market to Toronto and London. The new low-latency routes offer diversity from Sidera’…

Maine’s GWI extends broadband, voice service to Dover-Foxcroft and Calais

Posted by on May 14, 2012 at 7:32 am
GWI broadband Maine

GWI, a Biddeford, Maine-based competitive service provider, is once again taking on the state’s incumbent operator FairPoint (Nasdaq: FRP) with the completion of its network expansion in Calais and Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.

GWI’s new service are…

AT&T takes U-verse service to Ottawa, Kan., to challenge cable incumbent Allegiance

Posted by on May 14, 2012 at 7:10 am

AT&T (NYSE: T) is taking on local cable video incumbent Allegiance Communications by launching its U-verse video, voice and data service suite in Ottawa, Kan.
The Sunflower State has been another growth market for U-verse service. Since entering…